Resumen de Ceci n'est pas un conte, la rhétorique du conversationnel
The constitution in the Middle Ages of a vernacular literature, through Chrétien de Troyes, to the structure of the modern novel shows the influence of orality and particularly of the rhetorics of discursive speech — any non-narrative organization of language — on narration. As Diderot's exemplary story, whose status the title denies, shows, narrative is part of sociability — or of the art of conversation.
